Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Each play poeticizes the cradle-to-near-grave journey of so-called ordinary American lives.
The post Life's Language: <em>Home</em> and <em>What Becomes of Us</em> ap…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2024
The show ultimately overlooks its own message: that a little isolation goes a long way.
The post <em>Three Houses</em> Review: Dave Malloy's Post-Pandemic Musical Is Lonely to a …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
This Great Gatsby is an engaging, tautly rendered, and visually dazzling ride.
The post <em>The Great Gatsby</em> Review: A Musical Take on a Classic Gets a Miraculous Broadway M…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
A smarter, warmer, bolder revival of The Wiz remains tantalizingly out of reach.
The post <em>The Wiz</em> Review: Despite Stunning Performances, New Revival Eases Aimlessly Down…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2024
It never stands a chance of being so bad it's good because it wants to be good so badly.
The post <em>Lempicka</em> Review: A Tonally Jumbled Celebration of the Undervalued "Baro…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
In Zinnie Harris's play, Lady Macbeth gets tangled in her own unraveling.
The post <em>Macbeth (An Undoing)</em> Review: When Undoing Is an Understatement appeared first on Slant…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:04PM[SHARE]Under Danya Taymor's direction, this is a remarkable, emotionally arresting piece of theater.
The post <em>The Outsiders</em> Review: Greasers and Socs Will Get a Hold on You in …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
Sam Gold's sharply accelerating production reveals the horror of hypocrisy.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
This show never transcends the clichés that it conflictingly both seeks to challenge and embrace.
The post <em>The Notebook</em> Review: On Stage, a Nicholas Sparks Adaptation H…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2024
Illinoise functions like a particularly classy jukebox musical.
The post <em>Illinoise</em> Review: Sufjan Stevens's <em>Illinois</em> Comes Movingly Alive in Josh Pe…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2024
Fiasco Theater's production of Pericles is an electrifying act of double-resurrection itself.
The post <em>Pericles</em> Review: The Bawdy and the Beautiful appeared first on Sla…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2024
The Connector's characters reach beyond their time and place to point, Cassandra-like, toward the litany of offenses against the truth that would stack up over 25 years.
The post <em>T…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 07:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2024
In its new iteration, Under the Radar, which runs through January 21, hasn't missed a step.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:09PM[SHARE]Friday, December 22, 2023
In 2023, there was a happy diversity in the tapestry of the theater that resonated most deeply.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 19, 2023
There are few dramatic moments that justify the music that stems from the songs.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2023
It's surprising how much of Spamalot's humor now feels rooted in an earlier time.
The post <em>Spamalot</em> Review: A Musical Revival That Pitches Itself to the TikTok Generatio…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
I Need That is a vehicle built for two that mostly just spins its wheels.
The post <em>I Need That</em> Review: Buried by His Past appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2023
Here We Are is one last invitation to let Sondheim's music guide us through the woods.
The post <em>Here We Are</em> Review: Stephen Sondheim's Final Master Class Is Small and Fu…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2023
O'Casey's depiction of the incursion of war on the lives of the innocent shudders with timeliness.
The post <em>DruidO'Casey</em> Review: Sean O'Casey's Trilogy Is a Tragic Visio…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Across this revival of Purlie Victorious, it's rare that the silliness and sobriety intermix.
The post <em>Purlie Victorious</em> Review: Ossie Davis's Outsized Jim Crow Satire R…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
There are pauses, yes, in Infinite Life, but they're far from mere stylistic flourishes.
The post <em>Infinite Life</em> Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Pain appear…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:30PM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
Few shows have mastered the varied arts of cinematic recreation quite like this one.
The post <em>Back to the Future: The Musical</em> Review: A Myopic, Too-Faithful Broadway Ada…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:12PM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2023
Once Upon a One More Time is a frivolously delightful entry into the jukebox genre.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2023
Never before has a boy triumphed more.
The post <em>Oliver!</em> Review: Benjamin Pajak Leaves Audiences Wanting More in Lumpy Revival appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2023
Comer's Tessa wins the case for Suzie Miller's play as urgent, necessary theater.
The post <em>Prima Facie</em> Review: Jodie Comer Is Blistering in Suzie Miller's Indictment of …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Ijames celebrates his characters in all their hammy, juicy humanity.
The post <em>Fat Ham</em> Review: James Ijames's Gay Black <em>Hamlet</em> Speaks to Many on Broa…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Shucked should probably invest in some "Keep the punchlines" pins.
The post Review: The Grassroots Musical <em>Shucked</em> Charms On Broadway, One Corny Pun at a Time appeared f…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 26, 2023
Sweeney Todd can still shock, even if this production seldom goes for the jugular.
The post <em>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</em> Review: A Fine Showcase for a …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
The Harder They Come deserves a weirder, more surprising stage adaptation.
The post <em>The Harder They Come</em> Review: Suzan-Lori Parks's Jukebox Adaptation Falls Hard appeare…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2023
Pictures from Home is a frantically verbal adaptation that's not given to subtlety.
The post <em>Pictures from Home</em> Review: A Blaringly Unsubtle Family Portrait appeared fir…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2023
A united community is a powerful force that can be used for healing or destruction.
The post The Best of the 2023 Under the Radar Festival appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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